AMD v Intel

Hi
I'm in the middle of trying to get my mother and her husband to update their computer. I told them I would build them one for less then they could buy one in the shops. My problem is that my mothers husband is being influenced by his youngest sone on which processor to use, he is advising the pentium 4 where as I say AMD is just as good.

I have always believed the P4 gets alot of hype and there is nothing wrong with AMD
Stitch

What is everyones oppinion on AMD v Intel. any feedback on this is more than welcome.

 

Having built with both, see no real difference. Would go with what they think they want or you'll be blamed for every glitch in windows.

 

Absolutely agree with sparrow.

If they choose, responsibility is theirs. If you choose, you will be responsible for every glitch, man made or not.

 

stitch,
just built a computer with my kids and we used an AMD64 3500+ with MSI Neo 2 Platinum mobo and it works great. i would say go AMD and trust your instincts.

 

I also agree with Sparrow.

But I have been told that there is a difference if a lot of heavy duty game playing is done.

I have all AMDs. ( older but still working just for me )

BillyBob

 

The thing is they don't use the computer for much more than browsing the net, internet banking, and mother uses it to type up her college work. The son wants to be able to play games like he does on his own machine which he keeps upstairs, he thinks if the one downstairs is fast enough he can play them downstairs to. He also likes to surf a bit though his idea of sites is way under question if you know what I mean.
I just dont think they need an all singing all dancing machine to do what they want it to. And to keep costs down I thought an AMD 2gig with 512mb ram would be more than fast enough when you consider they are only on 333mhz at the moment with 64mb ram.

 

As I doubt they are hardcore gamers, I think you really should go with what they want - or it's a life of free support from you!

I personally always used AMD CPUs in the past, but my latest PC I switched to Intel and think it is better (MHO). It overclocks like a dream (20% with no extra cooling) it is very fast and my 3dmark scores all tend to be higher than similar AMD CPUs. I also used to get lot's of problems with AMDs getting too hot or simply being poor at dealing with games that had large numbers of objects on screen (Warcraft3 large battles always froze due to CPU rather than GPU), especially Thunderbirds.

However the 64bit CPUs are very popular with gamers and I think they are a big impovement on AMDs previous efforts.

PLease note - my comments are all from a gamers point of view - nothing else.